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NASA-MCOG Project helps in Space and on Earth

NASA and the MCOG Project Team partner with KidsOR to loan their ceramic oxygen generator technology to help save young lives in low-income countries.

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We challenge the notion that inventions should be reserved for patents and profits. Rather, we invite fellow builders of the future to use their skills for a humanitarian purpose. We want to make the future better for everyone. To do this we remove, rather than add, legal barriers to the free use of our inventions. All work done with Public Invention is free and open to all under share-alike public licenses.

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Public Invention forms invention teams around humanitarian invention projects. We also need Invention Coaches above all else to mentor and guide a project from start to finish. However, we also need artists, writers, social media experts, and more. All will find a place here and all kinds of tech backgrounds can be utilized: biology, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, math, etc.

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Recent Projects

Check out some of our recent public invention projects listed below.

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PolyVent

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the fragility of our global supply chains. The PolyVent started out as an attempt, along with 100 other teams, to make an open source emergency ventilator. It has now become the world’s most open and extensible ventilator.

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GOSQAS

The Global Open Source Quality Assurance System (GOSQAS) provides the opportunity to create truthful, transparent documentation via our open source provenance tracker, Global Distributed Tracking (GDT). Designed specifically for low-resource settings, GDT allows anyone with simple website access to securely record their project data.

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Fetal Health Risk Detection using Machine Learning

Equipping healthcare professionals and expectant mothers with timely and actionable insights, this solution aims to transform neonatal care, saving lives and fostering healthier beginnings.

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Project #51: Moonrat: A portable Incubator

Current Public Inventors:

Melanie Laporte, Silvia Castillas, Harshit Kumar, Enrique Ruiz, Horacio Garcia, F. Lee Erickson, Robert L. Read of Public Invention

Past Inventors: Sam Dauenbaugh, Jerry Chang, Shreya Bhatia

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NASA-MCOG

The NASA-MCOG project develops an open-source control system to enhance NASA’s Ceramic Oxygen Generation technology, aimed at improving life support for space missions. The project focuses on precise parameter control, with potential applications for global health and oxygen generation in harsh environments.

Check out how the efforts of this project are helping other organizations, like KidsOR, to bring oxygen generating sources to low income countries to save lives: https://www.kidsor.org/news/nasa-kidsor/

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